The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
Anne TylerTag: love attraction divorce
But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
Anne TylerTag: risk-taking regret change-your-life
Not invade her privacy! Just sit back and give up on her, as if she were a missing pet or mitten, or dropped penny.
Anne TylerTag: relationships-love
You know why I like to talk to you, Delia? You never interrupt with your experiences. Not jiggling your foot till you get a chance to jump in with your life history.
Anne TylerTag: compassion listening relationship
Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?
Anne TylerTag: marriage wife separation
It was ridiculous of her to feel so wounded.
Anne TylerTag: marriage-life woundedness
Fifty years from now, strangers discovering this album at some parking-lot flea market would glance at us and flip the page, not even interested enough to wonder who we’d been.
Anne TylerFace it,' I said. 'There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got,' I said.
Anne TylerTag: life life-lesson
All those things we used to promise ourselves we'd never, ever do when we grew up. Like we promised we wouldn't mince when we walk barefoot. We promised we wouldn't lie out on the beach tanning instead of swimming, or swimming with our chins high so we wouldn't wet our hairdos. We promised we wouldn't wash the dishes right after supper because that would take us away from our husbands; remember that? How long since you saved the dishes till morning so you could be with Max? How long since Max even noticed that you didn't?
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